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There should be change – the West should understand our music and culture, and vice versa. With such collaboration, artists can come closer to each other and come to know each other.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.